61: Samy

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Samy Kamkar is a hacker. And while he’s done a lot of stuff, he’s best known for creating the Samy Worm. Which spread its way through a popular social media site and had crazy results. Thanks to our guest Samy Kamkar for telling his story. Learn more about him by visiting https://samy.pl/. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/darknet. And use promo code DARKNET25. Support for this episode comes from LastPass. LastPass is a great password manager but it can do so much more. It can setup 2FA for your company, or use it to monitor what your users are doing in the network. Visit LastPass.com/Darknet to start your 14 day free trial. Sources Samy’s YouTube Channel Video: MySpace Worm Animated Story https://samy.pl/myspace/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnjwb4/the-myspace-worm-that-changed-the-internet-forever Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Jack, host of the show.
0:02.3	When I was a kid, I got an ant farm from my birthday.
0:04.8	It's like two panes of glass with some sand in between
0:08.1	and you can watch the ants dig tunnels
0:10.0	and go about their day.
0:11.1	It was really cool.
0:12.8	But when you get the ant farm, it doesn't contain any ants.
0:17.4	You have to order the ants and their male to you.
0:21.1	And the first thing I thought about when I was a kid
0:23.3	and I heard about this was, wait a minute,
0:26.0	I can male ants to anyone I want.
0:29.2	And I think that is basically the hacker mindset
0:31.8	to completely ignore something's intended use
0:34.7	and find new ways to employ it.
0:37.2	Today we're going to talk with a hacker
0:38.5	who sees the world this way.
0:40.5	And we'll hear all the joy and trouble it's brought him
0:43.9	over the years.
0:45.0	These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.
0:56.0	I'm Jack Recyder.
0:58.7	This is Dark Net Diaries.
1:00.9	["Dark Net Diaries"]
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